This resource presents the creation of a database to track counterfeit pharmaceutical, electronic, and food crimes with open-source information, and its utility in analyzing counterfeit schemes, victims, and offenders in the U.S. from 2000-2015.
Counterfeit products not only cause financial damages, they also threaten public health and safety. There is a lack of reliable data that would enable research to better understand counterfeiting crimes and inform anti-counterfeiting strategies. NIJ-supported researchers created a database of counterfeit pharmaceutical, electronic, and food crimes with open-source information and used it to analyze counterfeit schemes, victims, and offenders in the U.S. from 2000-2015. The database is intended to be a first step toward the development of an empirical foundation and evidence-driven baseline for future product counterfeiting analyses Ultimately, this foundation could aid in developing lessons for law enforcement agencies on preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding to product counterfeiting.
Downloads
Similar Publications
- Cognitive and contextual influences in determination of latent fingerprint suitability for identification judgments
- Men Do Matter: Ethnographic Insights on the Socially Supportive Role of the African American Uncle in the Lives of Inner-City African American Male Youth
- Juveniles in Residential Placement, 2019